Education / Higher Ed
Teacher education in America has changed dramatically in the past thirty years—with major implications for how our kids are taught.
Teaching Teachers Changing Paths and Enduring Debates JAMES W. FRASER and LAUREN LEFTY foreword by Arthur Levine
As recently as 1990, if a person wanted to become a public school teacher in the United States, he or she needed to attend an accredited university education program. Less than three decades later, the variety of routes into teaching is staggering. In Teaching Teachers, education historians James W. Fraser and Lauren Lefty look at these alternative programs through the lens of the past. Fraser and Lefty explain how, beginning in 1986, an extraordinary range of new teaching programs emerged, most of which moved teacher education out of universities. In some school districts and charter schools, superintendents started their own teacher preparation programs—sometimes in conjunction with universities, sometimes not. Other teacher educators designed blended programs, creating collaboration between university teacher education programs and other parts of the university, linking with school districts and independent providers, and creating a range of novel options. Surveying which programs are effective and which are not, this book also examines the impact of for-profit teacher training in the classroom. Casting light on the historical and social forces that led to the sea change in the ways American teachers are prepared, Teaching Teachers is a substantial and unbiased history of a controversial topic. “Taking an even-handed and engaging approach, Fraser and Lefty describe a full range of developments in teacher preparation. Their exceedingly well-considered analyses have pushed me to reevaluate my own—and I am grateful for that.”—Jackie M. Blount, coeditor of Philosophy and OCTOBER 240 pages 6 x 9 3 halftones 978-1-4214-2635-8
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History of Education: Diverse Perspectives on Their Value and Relationship James W. Fraser is a professor of history and education at New York University. He is the author or editor of twelve books, including Between Church and State: Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural America and Teach: A Question of Teaching. Lauren Lefty is a doctoral candidate in the History of Education program at New York University.
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